Episode 22: Seasonal advice, selecting seeds, and visiting winter gardens around the UK

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2013

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this final edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast for 2013, the Wisley Garden team give suggestions for those final jobs of the year including.. • Plants for free by making root cuttings • Preparing your soil • Searching through seed catalogues Plus, Phil Clayton, features editor on the RHS’ award-winning The Garden magazine, sifts through the best of the seed catalogues and recommends top seeds to try for 2014 and RHS Garden Visits Editor Sian Thomas introduces her guide to RHS partner gardens to visit throughout the winter. All of that, and the latest news on events across our four RHS Gardens.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:55.9	Hello and welcome to the festive edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast. Our podcast bring you a mixture of features and discussions exploring every aspect of gardening. Plant care, pest control, container ideas, growing your own fruit and vegetables. Plus expert seasonal advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now.
1:01.9	I'm Tony Dickerson, one of the team of horticulture advisors here at the RHS Garden, Whisley and Surrey.
1:15.0	Coming up in this, our last podcast of 2013, no leftovers, but brand new features looking at the stunning winter gardens for you to explore across the UK. Or if you prefer to stay in the comfort of your armchair with a pile of seed catalogs,
1:19.9	the RHS Phil Clayton has some suggestions for exciting varieties of flowers and fruit you can try growing from seed this year. Activities that will entertain children and grandchildren during the
1:24.7	winter holidays and, as usual usual expert seasonal advice from the
1:28.4	RHS garden team so let's head outside to join the garden team to find out what's happening in the
1:33.4	RHS garden Whistley right now.
1:39.8	Hello my name's Lucy Tate and I'm the team leader at RHS Woodley looking after the herbaceous ornamental team.
1:47.7	Right now is the perfect time to be taking some root cuttings from some of your herbaceous perennials.
1:53.2	Things like Popaure orientalis, the perennial poppy, produce really good cuttings and so you'll get good results right away. So choose a big
2:02.9	vigorous clump that you have in the soil, leave the soil around the clump and you will expose some of
2:08.9	the roots. Same with pruning any tree or plant or anything else. You want to use material that's not
2:15.2	diseased or damaged. So you want good healthy growth, about a pencil
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